Vladimir Voinovich, Russian author and poet (died 2018)

Vladimir Voinovich

Russian writer and Soviet dissident (1932–2018)

Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich was a Russian writer and former Soviet dissident, and the "first genuine comic writer" produced by the Soviet system. Among his most well-known works are the satirical epic The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin and the…